"Of course the Jazz had the worst offensive performance against Portland of any team all season, they're injured and Portland has been playing good lately"
You mean TORCHING Portland by LOSING 140-129? By Losing by 17 with less than 3 minutes to go? By scoring a bunch of points in garbage time against Portland's scrubs like TJ Leaf, Keljin Blevins and CJ Elleby? Have you heard about garbage time?
I've noted this a lot in the past. Bogey gets the fewest calls of any mid- to high-usage player in the league. Can't believe how much they let him get straight up smacked around with no calls. It ridiculous.
Struggling again? This was his first rough game in maybe the last dozen. 1 bad game (and frankly it wasn't even that bad) in a dozen is more than acceptable.
A 126 offensive rating is torching somebody, yes. They scored 100 points in the first 3 quarters - well before garbage time.
As for the bogey part of your post. I think he is fine. He has been good for a long time now.
I think having Mike and Donovan reduces the likelihood of poor shooting games. Donovan also gives the team more options in offense. In poor shooting nights he could get to the FT line, bend the defense and create opportunities for his teammates.
Well, if torching a team means scoring points while losing big time, I'm not sure who is the one arguing disingenuously...
Torching a team means having a terrific scoring night against them.
Because context matters and you brought the Rockets into the discussion. Portland scored a franchiste record 50 points in the 1Q against the Rockets. They relaxed (like any team would do) but decided to play hard again in the 4Q.
Wait, they played hard again in the 4th? But you just said Houston only scored a lot because of garbage time?
The only way the Lakers fall to 8 is if they stay at 7 and lose their play in game with Golden State or Memphis and then survive their game with the 9/10 winner. I'm rooting for Dallas or Portland to stumble and the Lakers to win out to move up to 6 to avoid the possibility of that scenario but don't want both Portland and Dallas to stumble because at 5 the Lakers re-enter our side of the bracket. Also, I think the Jazz organization has been far too cavalier in continuing to rest Conley and Mitchell. We needed to approach this game with a far greater sense of urgency. (I say this because Conley has already expressed publicly that his injury is minor - and over a week ago, and watching Mitchell walk around the court tonight there was absolutely no hint of distress.) This loss could definitely come back to bite us in the azz.
Wow. I assumed Conley was still pretty hobbled, but I looked it up and yeah, the sentiment among multiple reporters is that Conley, at least, would be playing if it was a playoff game right now.
Good points, but it's really not even the missed shots that gets me.
Portland scored 50 against them in the 1Q, chilled for two quarters so the Rockets cut the lead to single digits, Lillard came in the 4Q and built the lead back to 17pts. Garbage time followed with the Rockets scrubs scoring 10pts in less than 2min. Not sure how the Rockets were torching them when the Blazers had won the game in the 1Q. Also, you are the one hung up on the Rockets or logic that the Portland defense is so bad we must score a million points against them (I think it was a bad example/logic). For me it's obvious this team is not as good offensively as it was with DM and Conley. We are struggling but the reason for it is not mental fortitude, it's health and bad offensive players getting minutes. We didn't even have clutch minutes with DM and Conley to claim that we fold under pressure (we just were too good). I'll evaluate the team when healthy.
